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25 Cards in this Set
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JS born in ____ in ______ California
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1902 in Salinas, California
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Used home setting in
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many of his novels
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attended ______ but did not graduate
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Stanford
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worked at various jobs including:
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fruit picking
care taking journalist |
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first novel:
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Cup Of Gold published in 1929
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first successful novel
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published in 1935 - Tortilla Flat
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Of Mice and Men
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published in 1937
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Pultizer Prize in
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1940 for his novel The Grapes of Wrath - family's migration from the dust bowl in OK to the 'promised land' in Cali
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married in
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1930
1942 |
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won Nobel Prize for Lit in
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1962
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died:
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NYC 1968
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all of JS novels deal with
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a personal experience of an issue that he felt strongly about
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emphasized the need for
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humans to be in partnership with nature
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often wrote about what
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unites humans
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his characters are
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outcasts of society, poor, uneducated and often rebellious
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he reveled in the simple joys of life and
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the splendors of nature
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OM+M
the economic upheavals of the 1930s produced rootless Americans who found themselves without possessions or hope. |
This novel is an example of this kind of alienation
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The American Dream
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after harshness of civil war people strove for something better: believed america to be an "Eden" - beauty, bounty, unlimited promise
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Crushing "The Dream"
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WWI, Great Depression, WWII, Pearl Harbor, Atomic Bomb
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Post War Writers
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skeptical, cynical, questioned the authority and tradition of American system, new more relaxed moral codes
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Marxism
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direct opposition to free enterprise, wanted everything ot be owned communally and everyone receive equal benefits
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Psychoanalysis
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actions are controlled by subconcious- no free will, caused anxiety
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Jazz Age/Harlem Renaissance
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Prohibitions, bootlegging, speakeasy, flappers, rythms of jazz, gangsters
Harlem- new type of poetry , mix of blues jazz and street talk |
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New American Hero
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created by Ernest Hemmingway
man of action warrior, tough competitor, code of honor, courageous, endurance, shows grace under pressure DISILLUSIONED, flawed |
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Important Modern Authors
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Robert Frost
F Scott Fitzgerald John Steinbeck Ernest Hemmingway William Faulkner Langston Hughes EE Cummings Arthur Miller |
